LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Would You Serve These People?
Would you serve these people? That was the question facing the landlords of 22 Isle of Wight pubs recently when regulars of the Commercial Inn decided to raise money for charity.
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The Three Sisters
A fear- ful gale was experienced on this coast on the 30th September, 1871. In the midst of the storm an Italian barque, the Three Sisters, became a complete wreck, attended with an agonizing and consider- able loss of life. After a most...
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MARCH 27TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
A vessel had been reported on fire, but nothing could be found, and it was learned later there had been a small moorland fire on the Sutherland coast across the Moray Firth.- Rewards, £...
A Vessel
St. Ives, Cornwall.—23rd January, 1939. The motor life-boat put out to an unknown vessel, but capsized with the loss of seven of her crew of eight.— Rewards: Bronze medals and £88 2s.
(A full account of this life-boat...
Sea King
During a moderate S.E. gale and very heavy sea, on the 3rd January, the steam- trawler Sea King, of Hull, was observed in the offing making signals for a pilot.
The sea was too rough for an ordinary shoreboat to put off,...
Eugenie S. Embiricos
JANUARY 21 ST. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. The life-boat rescued twenty eight people from the Greek steamer Eugenie S. Embiricos on January 22nd and landed sheep and provisions on January 26th. For details, see January 10th, page 12.
Sinai
TYRELLA, COUNTY DOWN.—On the 15th November the French brigantine Sinai, of Nantes, drove on outlying rocks off Eathmullan, in Dundrum Bay; one man got into the ship's boat, which soon capsized, but he contrived to hold on to it until...
Erratum
IN the March 1960 number of the Life-boat it was stated on page 381 that the bronze medal for gallantry had been awarded to Mr. Hugh Owen, of the Moelfre, Anglesey, crew. In fact, Mr.
Owen was awarded a second-service clasp...
Category: Awards
Thetis of Gothenburg
On the 18th November, the Licensed Victualler life-boat put off, during a strong wind and hazy weather, and rescued from their boat the crew of 16 men belonging to the barque Thetis, of Gothenburg, which had gone on the Woolpack Sand, about...